In the 1980s Astro Boy, a cyborg called Inspector Holmes is shot in the only human part of him: his head. Astro's reaction? "You shot him! In the head! His head was the only part of him that was human! You shot him in his head!"

During the Kenpachi vs. Nnoitora fight. "He's got more arms!" Thank you, Ichigo. We'd be lost without you.

Urahara temporarily surpasses Ichigo's stupidity in the Zanpakuto Rebellion arc, when the zanpakuto start rebelling against the shinigami. After several fight scenes, the new enemies completely devastating the Soul Society, Ichigo coming to his own (correct) conclusions, multipleInfo Dumps, Urahara gives us this little gem: "From the report, it seems that the majority of zanpakuto in Soul Society have begun to act against their shinigami."

In Cross Ange, while both Ange and Sala are singing to activate the Spacetime Convergence Cannon so that they can repel the dimensional distortion, Ange's Vilkiss explodes from the overload because Vilkiss isn't fully repaired. Cue the conversation:

An early episode of Fist of the North Star has a drill instructor explaining to his men that "God's Army is the army of God". The line makes sense in Japanese, since he's explaining what the name "God's Army" means (Kami no Gun), but its pointlessly redundant in English.

Though Kalinin from Full Metal Panic! tends not to say things like this, he did have an instance where he felt the need to mention that Gauron is a "depraved pleasure seeker." You know, just in case the audience and the soldiers who just fought him (and had just witnessed his Ax-Crazy ways) didn't get it by now.

Kalinin was actually warning his subordinates to be wary of Gauron, saying that he might look "depraved and pleasure seeking" but he was still a pro — a very intelligent and cunning opponent. Also, the soldiers fighting him in that battle hadn't truly seen what he was capable of, and were probably inclined to dismiss him too easily, just like those guys in the Helmajistan arc. At that point, some anvils needed to be dropped. Though even Kalinin couldn't have predicted the whole new levels of insanity and lustful obsession Gauron had reached thanks to Sousuke. The whole pancreatic cancer thing.

In Gankutsuou, a character looks at an envelope and reacts to it with: '13 Rue De Dauphine? That's M. Noisier's house!' (Name and address deliberately changed to protect the fact I can't remember them.) He then turns the envelope towards the camera, and there's a small, blurry address line; but the name 'M. Noisier' is perfectly legible in large letters across the centre of the envelope.

Tetsuro in the new Guyver series sometimes falls into this. When he's not constantly shouting "son of a bitch!".

Following Guyot's careful explanation of the process used to create Zoanoids, including Tetsuro stating that they are human in shock.

Halo Legends, where Cortana describes the Milky Way saying, "This galaxy is vast."

In the Japanese live-action version of Hana Yori Dango, Makino and Tsukasa are waiting to cross the street when the light turns from red to green. He remarks, "The light's green", as if no one else could see it.

InuYasha has an entire cast of Captains Obvious, with characters gleefully re-stating something that was just mentioned by another Captain Obvious. For example, if a character is returning from being away, they'd show the character approaching, then one character would say something like "Hey, it's Character Name" then someone else would say "Character Name is coming back!" and "It's good that Character Name is back now!", leading to a whole chorus making sure that the audience knows exactly what's going on, regardless of how obvious it is.

Every time Kagome muses that Inuyasha is half-demon and "half demon means... half human, right?" as if it's a stunning new revelation in the first ten or so episodes, take a shot. It took her quite some time to wrap her head around it (no, we don't meet any half-demon half-gerbils who happen to look 99% human or anything.)

So, there's a scene where Might Guy fights Kisame Hoshigaki. After 10 minutes, Guy suddenly says, "You wield a sword!" even though Kisame was using his sword right from the beginning. He also has other brilliant lines such as "You surely are... someone I met before".

Ironically, the latter is actually a subversion, as the villain is using a body duplication technique that's based on another body, and that one's rhythms are slightly different from the villain's own... so while Guy can see the bad guy, his instincts tell him that it's someone else. And he's right.

There's also when he looks at Gaara's gourd: "Nobody has noticed yet... but... that gourd is suspicious!"

And there is also Pain's "Do you hate me?" line after Naruto goes six-tails because he was Forced to Watch Pain almost fatally stab Hinata. Shippuden Episode 167 made it worse (or hilarious depending on your view of the episode), as he says it after being smacked into the ground with a large chunk of mountain.

Masashi Kishimoto falls victim to this too as every time a plot point is shown he lampshades it.

Kiba drops one when he says that the moon look strange. Half a chapter after the Infinite Tsukuyomi started.

Shinji: Right, I am me and she is she. But are you really sure that the perceptions of others form my true self?

Misato: It's true, Shinji Ikari.

Asuka: Has it taken you this long to realize that?! What an idiot!

End of Evangelion has a much simpler example when a dying Misato is confronting a depressed Shinji: "You hate yourself, don't you?" Like, seriously, did you just realize that Misato?? Congratulations!

Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo Late in the series, Ureshiko Asaba is judged to be erased, whereupon Kagura Tatsumi immediately clarifies, "That means you'll die!" Being wiped from existence is pretty much the same as dying, if not worse.

The background characters in One Piece tend to be quite vocal about the events at center-stage. This was mentioned because One Piece characters, especially fodder-types spew an overabundance of expository dialogue which often crawls into Captain Obvious territory.

Most lines of the narrator from Ōkami-san To Shichinin No Nakamatachi come down to "what is just happening on the screen", although the way she says them (taking such obvious pleasure in pointing out the salacious side of story events) is what makes having a narrator worthwhile.

Pokémon: The First Movie should have a medal for the number of times the words "Mewtwo is a clone of Mew!", or something to that affect, are repeated.

Hell, the later dubbed seasons of the Pokémon anime are full of this. Characters frequently point out things that anybody watching the show can see.

Brock in the series is prone to this often (at least in the dub). It seems like every episode he has to explain everything that is going on, although this serves to educate viewers who aren't familiar with the Pokémon games.

You don't have to be familiar with the games to work this one out on your own, though.

May: Hey, Brock, what is Extreme Speed? Brock: When a Pokémon's speed goes to the extreme.

In the first Hoenn episode, Professor Birch falls on some Poochyena. When they start growling at him, he takes some time to deduce their emotions before coming to the conclusion that they're angry at him.

Rurouni Kenshin: Try and count all the times someone says "He's no ordinary swordsman!" (or something similar) every time Kenshin disappears because he's moving so fast or knocking down six enemies at a time.

Some days, it seems like the only reason Luna is around anymore in Sailor Moon:

Kazumi: It's called a school festival. It's a festival organized by the school.

Blame the translator— The Japanese have a word for "festival"note matsuri, a word for "school"note gakko, and a different-sounding word for "school festival"note gakuensai (Though written as "school" and "festival". That's how the language works). The person she's explaining it to is a foreigner who possibly wouldn't know all the words.

Manta from Shaman King has a tendency for this. It gets rather grating after a while.

Viral: Damn barbaric humans! Can't you beat us fist-to-fist you cowards? Kamina: This rock is my fist! Viral: A rock is a rock. It's not a damn fist! Kamina: Is stating the obvious the best you got, dumbass?

Ken Hidaka from Weiß Kreuz is the kind of guy who feels the need to point out to his teammates that empty rooms are, in fact, empty. Sometimes when they're standing right next to him. In the selfsame empty room.

Used very often in Yu-Gi-Oh!, usually when a monster is destroyed or a magic/trap card is used, so it happens virtually every move. Contributes to the show's Inaction Sequences.

Tristan: In a few hours the sun will rise! [Once Yugi loses some cards from his children's' card game.] Tristan: If it's any consolation, in a few hours the sun will rise! [Later, as the sun rises.] Tristan: See, I was right about the sun!

That's actually what he said in the anime. Well, the first part anyway.

And, from the movie:

Anubis: Shut up! You're going to die! And then you'll be dead! Because I killed you!

*enters a deserted submarine* Adrian: It's empty; I think it's deserted! Axel: That was quite the brilliant deduction, Adrian, so what are we gonna do now?

Yusei from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's isn't exactly flawless in this regard either. On some occasions, he even uses the same Monster Effects or Spell/Trap Cards TWICE or more in one episode, which is normal enough. But he seriously doesn't need to explain the effect in detail TWICE in the same episode as if we're not paying attention the first time.

Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V has become fairly memetic in the fandom for its overuse of cards that negate destruction by battle but not damage, because every single time it happens (often multiple times per episode), a character will say some variant of "But you'll still take damage!" This was even how the final duel in the series was resolved.

One example that occurs in multiple anime and manga is the translation of the phrase abunai (危ない), which is both an adjective meaning "dangerous" and an interjection meaning "Look out!" Often translators will mix up the two, having a character shout "This is dangerous!" while something dangerous is about to happen to one of their friends.

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